overlarge
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /əʊvəˈlɑːdʒ/
Adjective

overlarge

  1. Excessively large; too big; oversize.
    After a couple of years without pruning, the shrub had grown overlarge and completely obscured the window.
Adverb

overlarge

  1. (obsolete) Too extravagantly, overconfidently.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:12.83?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter lxxxiij], in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
      I will doo with her what me lyst said Palomydes / wete yow wel sayd that knyghte thou spekest ouer large / though thou semest me to haue at auauntage / by cause thow sawest me doo bataille but late



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